From: Brian D Harper <bharper@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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>Since many here may not have heard of Chaitin, let me preface my comments
>by saying that many regard his work to be one of the greatest achievements
>of modern mathematics. I say this only to make sure everyone realizes we're
>not talking about a crank. Chaitin is one of the co discoverers (with
>Kolmogorov and
>Solomonoff) of algorithmic information theory (AIT), but the result we're
>discussing
>here is uniquely his.
>
>I really can't do any justice to his ideas here, I would encourage those
>who are
>interested to visit his web page where he has almost all his papers
>available for
>downloading:
>
>http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/
Well, I've just read one of Chaitin's papers on this subject, and I didn't
understand it at all. I think I'm just going to have to forgo any further
discussion on this. ;-(
Richard Wein (Tich)
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